I saw an advertisement for the Portland Color Buzz. It looked awesome! I had to get Rylie to do it with me. It wasn't hard. Rylie has done similar runs, and I've always wanted to do one. So I signed us up!
On Friday I drove to north Portland to pick up our packets. I've never driven to Portland! I was nervous, but the way I went was pretty easy.
I drove over a mountain. The view was amazing.
Crossing St. John's Bridge was spectacular! I felt as I was floating on air. I want to visit St John again.
(I didn't take this picture)
The day of the race arrived. We were pumped, high on calories, and a song in our hearts. We didn't get the pretty drive, but did party hard while stuck in traffic. "See You Again" just might be our favorite song.
We got there a little bit after the pre-party started. People were already covered in paint. We weren't close enough to enjoy it....yet.
Clean white shirts before we got smothered in paint.
Thats the starting line is way up there. They split us up in waves so we weren't all walking/running on top of eachother. We were in the 7th wave. We walked/jogged/ran it in about an hour. We ran through colorful bubbles. Practically swam in the pile of them. We were covered head to to toe in bubbles.
The after party was fantastic!! It was loud, but fun! We did the WHIP, got covered in paint, and experienced "snow" in September. The energy was high!
At the end of the evening we were smothered in paint. Rylie got most of it in her eye, but she shared it with my sleeves. When we got to some real light, found out we changed skin color. We looked like Oompa-Loompas, even had the green hair. Thanks to some hard scrubbing and water, our secret identities were kept secret a little longer.
I hope to do another one!! Like it or the same one next year!
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